Saturday, May 12, 2012

Police and Nazis in joint attacks in broadlight in central Athens (OL-FTGS)

On May 9, 2012, only days after the election day in which 1 in 2 police voted Nazi,
the two conducted a joint operation against the migrant street traders
around the Athens School of Economics (ASOEE) and the anarchists who
joined in their support. Skirmishes of this kind have been taking place
for a while now, with riot police attempting to enforce a dogma of ‘zero
tolerance’ and a ‘clean Athens’, in a discourse echoing that of the
Golden Dawn (the Nazi party) and yet enforced by ‘socialist’ ministers
Chrisochoidis (Public Order) and Loverdos (Health).

On Wednesday’s operation the police openly co-operated with members
of the Nazi group Golden Dawn. The two have cooperated many times in the
past, whether openly or in disguise. In the videos and photos below
members of the GD chant ‘Greece belongs to the Greeks’, sway crow-bars
and throw stones to the anarchists who chant ‘the tin-cans have yet to
rot’, a reference to the execution (even slaying with tin-cans) of
members of the Nazi-collaborating Security Battalions by partisans of
EAM-ELAS in September 1944, following the battle between them in the
town of Meligalas, SW Peloponnese.

Nazis and riot police in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists. Athens School of Economics, May 10, 2012